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Originally Posted by HDFootyMan
Well I for one don't believe it.
Its been proved that Virgin are running out of bandwidth, that's they've been working so hard to remove channels.
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They're not running out of bandwidth, when analogue tv was switched off last year that freed up oodles of space.
VM have explained in their City presentations that some cable areas have less capacity than others due to the different legacy networks of the old cablecos. But VM have never used that as an excuse for not launching new channels.
VM are in 6 billion debt. They have set budgets each year and have to keep to them. When they say they have £200 million budget (or whatever it is) for new services each year including tivo and new channels, they mean it. They cannot just spend an extra half a billion in additional to their set budget for extra channels, because they're in too much debt.
Now we are in a new financial year, means a new budget, means more channel launches. But don't forget that unlike Sky, which has to except all new channels onto its platform, regardless of budgets, VM selects what channels it launches. Cable has always been like this and it always will. If you want the maximum amount of channels, then go to Sky.
Cable will never have the same line up as Sky.